Index of all Curriculum Units, 2005-2024

section "G"

Selecting a Unit number will take you to the Guide Entry for that Unit.

Gandhi, Mahatma
15.01.08 Biographies and Autobiographies: Portraits of Peace Builders

Gender

and Politics
09.02.08 Setbacks to Suffrage: Inquiry into the Process

in Art
23.01.06 Clothing and Identity in Early America: Black Women and AmerIndian Men
14.01.06 Power and the Machine: A Visual Examination of Class and Gender through the Industrial Revolution
14.01.07 Taking a Close Look at Pirates and Mothers
13.01.05 Inspiring American Women: Painting Them into the Picture

Femininity
15.04.05 You Should Be in a Dress and Camisole
14.01.07 Taking a Close Look at Pirates and Mothers

Feminism
21.03.05 Breaking Barriers: The Fight for Gender Equality, Equal Pay and Civil Rights
13.03.12 Glory Daze: Gloria Steinem's Biography Untangles the Mystique of Feminism

in Film
22.01.05 Themes in Encanto and Wadjda
18.03.01 The Miracle Worker: Bridging Drama and Film Study to Build Critical Literacy Skills
18.03.02 The Snow Queen in Film
15.04.03 Film, Freud and Fitzgerald: A Psychoanalytical Critique of The Great Gatsby and Jazz Age Values
15.04.05 You Should Be in a Dress and Camisole
15.04.06 Deepening One's Understanding of Psychological Disorders through Film: From One Extreme to Another - Depression and Schizophrenia
14.03.01 Lights, Camera, Immigration! An Examination of Global Cities through Film
07.01.03 Macbeth and Issues of Gender
06.01.01 Cultural Literacy through Media: Breaking Down Stereotypes by Building Up Knowledge
06.01.04 Women in World Cinema: Stories of Struggle and Resistance
06.01.08 I Search - Exploring Culture and Gender through Films Made in or about China

in History
21.02.05 American Intersections: How Race, Class, and Gender Shape our History and Lives
21.02.08 Giving Voice to the Silenced
17.02.07 Given, Chosen, and/or Imposed: My Gender, Myself
15.04.05 You Should Be in a Dress and Camisole
14.01.06 Power and the Machine: A Visual Examination of Class and Gender through the Industrial Revolution
14.01.08 Perspectives on Life during the Revolutionary War through the Lens of Art and Literature
12.03.03 The Women's Movement in Presidential Rhetoric
12.04.10 Putting Both Fists in the Air: The Addition of Women's Voices to the Black Power Era, 1960s-70s

in Literature
21.01.10 From Handmaids to Riot Grrrls, using Fiction to Understand Social Movements
21.02.01 Exploring Belonging and Exclusion through Ethnography
21.02.08 Giving Voice to the Silenced
18.03.02 The Snow Queen in Film
17.02.08 American Born Readers: A Multicultural, Multimedia Attempt to Challenge Perspectives and Inspire Reading
15.04.03 Film, Freud and Fitzgerald: A Psychoanalytical Critique of The Great Gatsby and Jazz Age Values
15.04.05 You Should Be in a Dress and Camisole
14.04.01 Medea: Innocent or Guilty? It's just Rhetoric
12.02.08 Beloved: A Case Study in Storytelling Analysis
08.01.01 Men vs. Women: Examining the Relationship between Genre and Gender in Shakespeare
08.01.02 Race and Gender in Shakespeare and the Art of Rhetoric
08.01.07 Queen Elizabeth's Influence on Disguise in Shakespeare's Plays and Spenser's The Faerie Queene
07.01.03 Macbeth and Issues of Gender
07.02.07 Beyond Criminal Justice: Investigating Social Issues through Detective Fiction

Masculinity
14.01.07 Taking a Close Look at Pirates and Mothers

Transgender
17.02.08 American Born Readers: A Multicultural, Multimedia Attempt to Challenge Perspectives and Inspire Reading

Genetics

Disease
16.06.02 Genetic Engineering and the Potential Effects on Evolution
15.06.03 Effects of Carcinogens on Cells
15.06.04 Genetics and Mechanisms of Disease

DNA
23.05.04 On the Border of Life: Bacteriophages and Biodiversity
17.06.02 A Cell's Story - from Growth to Mitosis
15.06.05 Recombinant DNA Technology and Global Health
13.06.01 Imagine the Unimaginable Harnessing the Power of DNA: Principles of Genetic Engineering
13.06.07 DNA in Forensic Science: genetic engineering applications in forensics

Engineering
23.05.04 On the Border of Life: Bacteriophages and Biodiversity
18.05.02 Should We? Possibilities, Perils, and Unintended Consequences of Genetic Engineering
18.05.03 GMOs: Costs, Benefits, and Controversies
18.05.04 Feeding the World Using Genetically Modified Organisms: A Survey of GMO Technology and its Impact on Agricultural Production
18.05.05 The Power and Responsibility of Human Changes to Biology: Malaria, Mosquitoes, and CRISPR Technology
18.05.09 Endangered Species, De-Extinction and MANipulation
18.05.11 From Wolf to Woof! Artificial Selection via Selective Breeding
17.06.01 Gene Therapy and Muscular Dystrophy: Structure, Function, and Dysfunction of the Muscular System
16.06.02 Genetic Engineering and the Potential Effects on Evolution
13.06.01 Imagine the Unimaginable Harnessing the Power of DNA: Principles of Genetic Engineering
13.06.02 Genetically Engineering Cures for Single Gene Diseases
13.06.03 The Evolution of Genetic Engineering
13.06.04 Effects of Genetically Modified Organisms on Agriculture
13.06.05 HIV: From Horror to Hope
13.06.06 Controversial Issues Regarding the Consumption of Genetically Modified Crops
13.06.07 DNA in Forensic Science: genetic engineering applications in forensics

Geography

Cultural (see Diversity->Cultural Geography)
13.04.01 The Study of a Zip Code: Tulsa's Invisible City
13.04.03 Whence We Stand: A Visual/Geography/History Adventure
13.04.08 Invisible Richmond: The History Behind the Urban Landscape
12.01.07 Present, Past, and Future: Using a Consumer Lens to Help Students Envision a Future
11.01.01 The Other Side: Experiencing Cultures through the Eyes of My Students
11.04.07 Mind the Gap: Planting the Seeds of Cultural Awareness
11.04.09 The Responsibility Is Ours: Preserving Intangible Heritage

Europe
08.04.01 Puentes, Civilizaciones y Cultura

Historical
14.03.02 Neighborhood as Palimpsest: An Examination of Chicago's Back of the Yards Neighborhood Through Urban Historical Geography

Latin America
07.04.07 Cuéntame Una Historia, Por Favor! (Tell Me A Story, Please!)

Geology

and Evolution
20.05.05 Biodiversity Beyond the Four Walls
16.06.05 Transitional Forms: The Evidence for Evolution by Natural Selection

and Time
22.04.06 Exploration: The Search for the Next Habitable Planet
16.06.04 Understanding Earth's History and Geologic Time through Evolution

Earthquakes
08.04.02 Building Bridges in Earthquake Country: From the Past to the Present

of Space
05.04.03 Volcanoes in the Solar System

Water Systems
20.04.03 Evaluating and Mitigating Stormwater Runoff Contamination
20.04.06 The Engineering of Green Infrastructure and Stormwater Management Practices
09.07.08 Teaching Ecology Principles through the Study of an Ecosystem

Geometry (see Mathematics)
20.05.01 One Clover and A Bee: The Impacts of Bee Sustainability on Biodiversity in Allegheny County
19.05.01 A Pathway to Understanding Area and Perimeter
19.05.02 SmArt Math: Paper Polyominoes and Ceramic Tetradic Cuboids
19.05.03 Native American Geometric Community
19.05.04 Exploring Perimeter and Area with Third Graders
19.05.05 Pentomino Garden: An Explorative Unit in Measurement, Manipulatives, and Gardening
19.05.06 When Your Plan to Multiply Polynomials is FOILED
19.05.08 Measures and Counts and Shapes, Oh...Polyomino?
19.05.10 Area and Perimeter: Farming Polyominos on the Navajo Nation
19.05.11 From Polyominoes to Planters: Using Manipulatives and Project-Based Learning to Explore Measurement
19.05.12 Geometric, Classroom Object Calculations
12.07.05 Math Facts of Natural Gas & Pollution
11.07.01 Symmetry and Fractals in the Lungs
10.04.01 Geometry and the Real World
10.04.02 Repeat After Me!
10.04.03 Putting the Pieces Together
10.04.04 The Art of Symmetry
10.04.05 Beyond the Wumps: Exploring Symmetry in Seventh Grade
10.04.08 Making Connections in Symmetry
10.04.09 Math and Design
08.04.06 Terrific Ts- Truss, Triangle, Tangram and Technology Exploring Bridge Design with the Elementary Student
07.03.04 The Beautiful Art of Map Making

Germany

Film
15.04.10 Life in the DDR through Film: German II

History
15.04.10 Life in the DDR through Film: German II

Language
15.04.10 Life in the DDR through Film: German II

Global Warming (see Climate Change; Ecology and Environmental Science)
23.04.01 We are Not in this Together: The Unequal Impacts of Climate Change
22.05.01 New Castle and Climate Change – Causes, Evidence, Impacts, and Potential Solutions
22.05.03 The Chemistry of Ocean Acidification and its Impacts on Marine Ecosystems
22.05.05 Graphing the Urban Health Impacts of Rising Temperature, Air Quality and Increased Pollen
20.04.02 Building a Heat-Resilient Community in Richmond, Virginia
20.04.03 Evaluating and Mitigating Stormwater Runoff Contamination
13.05.02 Soaking Up the Sun!
06.05.01 Global Warming: Is Our Local Environment Ready for the Change?
06.05.02 The Consequences of Global Warming on Human Health
06.05.03 Educating the Community about Global Warming and Sea Level Rise through Earth Day
06.05.04 Global Warming: A Physical Explanation and Implications on Climate
06.05.05 Teaching Science and Global Warming
06.05.06 A Planet Worth a Thousand Words: An English Teacher's Guide to Global Warming
06.05.07 The Case for Biodiesel with Selected Experiments

Prevention
20.04.05 A Plastic Struggle for Mother Earth
19.04.05 Prototyping a Wind Turbine and Measuring Performance
16.04.04 Energetics of Biofuel - Investigating Alternative Energy Sources by Manufacturing Biodiesel
16.04.05 It Ain't Easy Being Green
16.04.07 Náhasdzáán Nílchi Binaadohígíí - Carbon Dioxide
13.05.01 Energy Usage and Conservation: My Impact on the World
13.05.03 A Chemistry Perspective: Gasoline or Biodiesel?
13.05.05 Mathematics of Energy Efficiency: Use Less, Save More
09.05.08 What's Your Green Bottom Line? The Truth About What We Leave Behind
09.07.06 Unconventional Transportation
07.05.01 Petroleum: Our Best Transportation Option?
07.05.02 Solar energy: Using Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere to Produce a Viable Fuel Source
07.05.03 Environmentalists and Chemists Unite: A Chemistry Class for our Changing World
07.05.04 Catch the Wind

Golding, William

Lord of the Flies
14.04.08 The Politics of Rhetoric: William Golding's Lord of the Flies and Leadership Speeches of World War II

Government (see Criminal Justice; Law; Politics)

Federal
22.02.03 Imperial Dilemma – Great Society versus Vietnam in the 1960s
20.03.06 Money Talks: First Amendment Freedom of Speech and Campaign Finance
11.04.10 New Orleans: Human Gifts, Human Lessons

General
19.03.03 Understanding Democracy in the Elementary Grades
19.03.07 The Different Types of Government and The Vote
13.01.02 Our Visible Social Contract

Local
13.04.09 Vacant Lot: The Chicago Ickes Community Remembered
11.04.02 Strange Fruit: An Exploration of Imagery and Socio-politics of Post-Katrina New Orleans
11.04.10 New Orleans: Human Gifts, Human Lessons
08.04.04 Building Bridges Over Turbulent Middle School Waters

Policy
20.03.07 Health and Public Policy
20.03.09 What Does a Camel and Vaping Have to Do with Public Policy?
19.02.02 On Criminal Justice Reform: Studying Philadelphia’s New, Reform-Minded District Attorney through a Historical Context
19.02.03 Rethinking Policing: Origins of Brutality, the Impact and Reform
19.02.06 Equipping Students with Tools for Positive Change
18.01.05 From Mass Incarceration to Reform: An Analysis of Crime Policy Nationally and in the City of Brotherly Love
13.04.09 Vacant Lot: The Chicago Ickes Community Remembered

Surveillance State
15.04.04 Film Analysis and Contemporary Issues: The Surveillance State